What is restoration ? I often wonder ... it is a marvellous thing because without full time conservation efforts we would lose most of the marvels the past has left us.

But when I walk in Carcassonne, I often wonder what the city really looked like in the Middle Ages. What we see now is a Viollet-le-Duc impression of what it should have looked like. I often wonder : if someone from the fourteenth century were to come back : would he/she recognize the place ?

Pablo Carpintero

your devoted servant, is a happily retired economist, and way too old to mend his ways. Pablo knows that many economists have the perfidious tendency to turn into professional idiots. That's why his rule of life is to be as contrarian as possible, and then some ...